If South Koreans make movies like this, I wonder what the North Koreans will do when they get out of the mess they are in. Don't get me wrong, this film was very good, but it is an impossible film to enjoy.
The story is relatively simple: the crew of an old fishing boat take on a people smuggling job in order to save their ship. And then things happen. They are not sea monsters or hyperviolent criminal gangs or something else that you might expect, but their own human nature when faced with the end. What started up as a seemingly united crew of good people trying to make ends meat by helping each other turned out something else when their humanity was slowly but thoroughly stripped away.
The acting is very good, the characters well fleshed out, the pacing is a little slow, but then it may be intentional, as you have to watch through all the terrible things that happen in slow motion. A very dark story written by a guy who seems to write either very dark stuff or children stories :)
If you want harrowing drama, this is the film for you.
The story is relatively simple: the crew of an old fishing boat take on a people smuggling job in order to save their ship. And then things happen. They are not sea monsters or hyperviolent criminal gangs or something else that you might expect, but their own human nature when faced with the end. What started up as a seemingly united crew of good people trying to make ends meat by helping each other turned out something else when their humanity was slowly but thoroughly stripped away.
The acting is very good, the characters well fleshed out, the pacing is a little slow, but then it may be intentional, as you have to watch through all the terrible things that happen in slow motion. A very dark story written by a guy who seems to write either very dark stuff or children stories :)
If you want harrowing drama, this is the film for you.